Ice delivering receptacle



Jam. 12, 1937. A. DICK 2,067,263

ICE DELIVERING RECEPTACLE- Filed June 10, 1935 Patented Jan. 12, 1937 i'iE STATES PATENT OFFICE August Dick,

Application June 10,

1 Claim.

This invention relates to an ice delivery receptacle especially adapted for use by an ice deliveryman and has for the primary object the provision of a device of this character which will protect the deliveryman from ice while carrying the ice to a customers refrigerator and will prevent water from the ice from dripping on and soiling the floor of the customers house and permits carrying of the ice by the usual ice tongs and also provides means for accommodating small pieces of ice removed from the refrigerator while placing the ice removed from the receptacle into the refrigerator so that melting ice will not come in contact with and soil the purchasers floor or any other part of the house.

With these and other objects in view, this invention consists in certain novel features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

For a complete understanding of my invention, reference is to be had to the following description and accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view illustrating an ice delivery receptacle constructed in accordance with my invention.

Figure 2 is a fragmentary perspective view. showing the application of the receptacle to a piece of ice located within a conveyance.

Figure 3 is a perspective view showing the container having ice therein and carried upon the shoulder of a person.

Figure 4 is a vertical sectional View showing the device with a water trap therein.

Referring in detail to the drawing, the numeral 3 indicates a body of a receptacle and which body is of substantially rectangular shape open at its upper end and having opposite walls cutaway, as shown at 2, for the purpose of exposing a portion of a block of ice when positioned within the body. Opposite walls of the body adjacent the open end of the latter are each provided with end openings 3 and an intermediate opening t, the purpose of which is to permit ice tongs 5 to bite into the ice located within the body. The openings 3 are located so that the ice tongs may grip the ice in the body from either side thereof while the openings 4 permit the ice tongs to grip the ice in the body while the tongs are disposed over the open ends of the body. The cutaway portions 2 of the body expose portions of opposite sides of the ice in the body so that the tongs may be applied to such portions for lifting the ice from the body. The tongs engaging the ice through any of the openings described will permit carrying of the ice Pittsburgh, Pa.

1935, Serial No. 25,930

with the body thereon either upon the shoulder of a person or down to one side of the person with the open end of the body disposed uppermost so as to prevent water from the ice from draining out of the body.

The material of the body about the openings and the cutaway portions 2 is beaded or reinforced, as shown at 6.

A flanged pan '5 is hinged to one of the walls of the body adjacent the bottom of the latter and may be swung and held to parallel said Wall of the body by a spring clip 8 or the pan may be positioned, as shown in Figure 1, for the purpose of receiving small pieces of ice removed from a. refrigerator for the purpose of making room for the ice in the body to be placed in the refrigerator.

A strip i is applied to the pan 1 at the hinged edge thereof to cooperate with said pan in forming a trough to catch Water melting from ice resting in said pan when the latter is positioned vertically, as shown in Figure 4, to prevent spilling of the water during removal of the device from the house. The pan 1 or trough thereof may be readily emptied along with the emptying of the body of the receptacle l.

A device of the character described will permit a deliveryman to carry ice without coming in contact with the ice. Also, will prevent water melting from the ice from dripping onto floors and the like. After the delivery of the ice and the deliveryman returning to a place outside of the house, the pan and the body may be readily drained of water by turning the body upside down.

Having described the invention, I claim:

An ice delivery receptacle comprising a body of substantially rectangular shape and of a depth to substantially confine therein a block of ice and having one end open and disposed uppermost when carrying the block of ice, said body having opposed side walls thereof cutaway at the open end to expose opposite faces of the block of ice to permit application of tongs to the ice for removing the latter from the body and the other side walls of the body each having groups of openings with the openings of each group arranged to permit the ice tongs to extend through the body for gripping the block of ice with the tongs disposed either vertically for carrying the ice and body in a suspended position or disposed horizontally in either direction for steadying the body when being carried on a shoulder of a person.

AUGUST DICK. 

